<To you, maybe. Not to me, as I write applications using these languages.>
How do you think the sharehlders feel?
<The number of applications that run under Unix is comparable to the number of applications that run under Wintel.>
Now, that is simply not true!
<Boy, you really buy this marketing carp, don't you? Do you mean that if I came out with WidgetMaster v5.3 it would automagically be stable and mature? I don't know, 'cause apparently MSFT can't even get version 95 right.>
Don't MSFT's visual development products work well. Ask Borland, who lost significant market share in both Xbase environments and C,C++ environments.
<Didn't you just make my point?>
No, I didn't, read the whole reply and compare it to your original comment.
<You don't think SpecTcl and other stuff like it do these things? BTW - it's free too.>
Does NSCP own SpecTcl. No? Then what relevance is it? No money in the NSCP shareholders pockets.
<Is the platform Excel 8.0? If so, you win, and I won't play, because I have no idea how to use Excel 8.0, and don't even have a PC. If the platform is the web, you're on (depending of course on the application.).>
I'll make the platform the web, give you a 20 minute head start, and we can make the application do reporting, form generation, financial calculation or a combination of all three. |
